Parker joins an exclusive club

Tony Parker enjoyed perhaps the most well-rounded games of his career in Monday’s OT victory over Houston, racking up 27 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists for his first triple-double.

In doing so he joined an exclusive club as the first Spur not named Tim Duncan or David Robinson to record a triple-double in two decades, and just the eighth overall. As if that wasn’t enough, Parker also got a custom-made desert for his efforts.

A huge asterisk for the following compilation of all-time Spurs triple-doubles: Basketball Reference’s database only goes back to the 1985-86 season, and the Spurs do not have an official list. The NBA media site has every box score in history, but lists only scoring/shooting in many of them. So we’re missing a huge chunk of their history during which you’d imagine George Gervin or James Silas would have racked up a few.

But, we’ll go with what we have, recognizing that it’s an incomplete list. In chronological order:

* No Spur on record had recorded a triple-double with at least 12 rebounds and 12 assists before Parker.

* David Robinson had four of his six regular-season triple doubles within a two-month span of the 1993-94 season, capped by his quadruple-double against Detroit. He narrowly missed a second quadruple-double, coming within two blocks against Minnesota.

* Tim Duncan has more triple-doubles in the postseason (four) than the regular season (three).

* The Spurs are 22-5 in games in which their players record a triple-double.

* All but six of the Spurs’ triple-doubles have come at home.

* The Spurs boast two of the NBA’s four recognized quadruple-doubles, by Robinson and Alvin Robertson. Johnny Moore came within a steal of recording San Antonio’s first in a 1984-85 game against Golden State.

Historical tid-bits:

* Blocks and steals were not recorded until the 1973-74 season, meaning any number of triple- and quadruple-doubles went unrecognized. Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain are both purported to have recorded to have had at least one quadruple-double.

* Oscar Robertson is the all-time leader with 181 triple-doubles, followed by Magic Johnson (138) and Jason Kidd (107). He had a single-season record 41 during the 1961-62 campaign, in which he averaged 30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists. He averaged a triple-double for his career through his fifth NBA season.

* Chamberlain has the only known “double” triple-double: 21 points, 25 rebounds, 21 assists, against Detroit in 68.

* The NBA’s first triple-double is believed to have been recorded by Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals in 1951: 18 points, 22 rebounds, 13 assists.